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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve
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To: Dave Gore who wrote (5727)12/11/2000 10:42:23 AM
From: Valley Girl  Read Replies (1) of 6710
 
I'll echo CB, I think this proposal is very reasonable. It's too bad the FL SC didn't do this. My reading of the FL SC's decision was that they were trying to find a "fair" way out of this, hence the stretch to count all the undervotes, not just the ones that the Dems had placed on the table at trial. (Legality of both ideas open to question.) I think they might have gone the last step and set standards as you've suggested, but were afraid that if they did, it would be struck down by the US SC as legislating from the bench. The courts are caught between a rock and a hard place; whoever wrote that vague "voter intent" statute had better have his/her bags packed for Cuba!

P.S. Reps are saying no previous election in Florida has counted dimples. If this is true, and there is previous case law, this would provide the courts a way out.
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